130: Death of the Author: Guru Dutt’s Pyaasa

Bollywood is For Lovers

With the Criterion Channel now streaming the work of Guru Dutt, we discuss the acclaimed director’s most iconic film, Pyaasa.

Show notes:

• We upgraded our mic setup
• Criterion Channel’s The World of Guru Dutt
• Past episodes: Dev Anand’s Bombay Noir and Noir ‘58
• Mr. Criterion: Do Bigha Zamin and Shree 420
• Bollywood doesn’t need Western validation, but accessibility is nice
• Pyaasa
• The Goddess Who Carries The Burden of The World, Mother India
• Restoration in 2015
• “All-Time 100 Movies”

(INTERVAL (“Sar Jo Tera Chakraye” from Pyaasa)

• Pyaasa’s Sight and Sound votes
• Comparison to Orson Welles
• “Jinhen Naaz Hai Hind Par”
• Ten years after Partition
• “The Death of the Author” by Roland Barthes
• The “starving artist”
• “I Threw It On The Ground”
• “Hum Aap Ki Ankhon Mein”

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